Marva Delores Collins (b.1936) was an American educator who started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in 1975.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Excellence
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
—Marva Collins
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Character
Success doesn’t come to you — you go to it.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Opportunity, Success, Strength, Success & Failure
Can’t make a mistake, can’t make anything.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Creativity
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Determination
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
—Marva Collins
Topics: Teaching
Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn’t-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
—Marva Collins
Topics: The Past, Past
I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children.
—Marva Collins
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